Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hull-repair Drone


Repairs Hull damage

Active omni armor hardener like invu field in shield

Close Proximity Defense Drone

Small Sentry drone 5m3 each.
Range about 5km-10km
Damage : Scout Drone Damage
Tracking : Scout Drone Tracking

Automatically attack hostiles when they get within range.

Projected Warp Stabilizer



Projects Warp Stabilization
T1 = +1
T2 = +2

Drone Deploy Bomb



Bomb contains 5 drones put inside by the player before hand

When bomb detonates those 5 drones 'hatch' and are controllable by pilot even though drone bay too small to hold all.

Bandwidth still applies. So right now if bombers still only able to fire bombs, 25 bandwidth is all you'd get to play with.

Sentry Mining Drones.

10km
25 bandwidth
eph between a heavy and medium drones
(suggesting an Ice version, but the cycle time would have to ... discouraging)


Logi module
projected resistance. three versions each for structure, armor and shield. omni without scripts for specific resists.

Consumable Microwarp fuel additive



Fuel that gives microwarps and/or afterburners additional boost. +10% +25% +50%?

Made out of materials like Rocket Fuel[x] and Quafe[y] on a planet.

Consumes 10[x]m3 / sec, so 100m3 would give that boost for 10s.

Works in conjunction with heat system.

Used like nanite paste.

If module is disabled due to heat damage, engine explode causing catastrophic damage to the craft possibly destroying it.

Using it is suppose to feel like a gamble and less skill.

Random Damage type explosion if you have enough resists on that damage type you may survive.

Rough numbers :
1mn - 1000 damage
10mn - 5000 damage
100mn - 10000 damage

Idea#1: A high-yield self-destruct-bomb module that, once activated, asks "are you sure you want to do this?" and you get 3 options: NO, YES, and YES+EJECT ... the last option being to eject your capsule immediately and the ship autopilot-approaches the target, and when within X range of the target, your ship explodes (if you only select YES then you have to eject manually or else go in and explode with your ship) .... while the ship is on its way, it still counts as your property and your attack. and everything about it continues as it was, but having ejected the capsuleer has relinquished any further control of the vessel. The ship has (for example) 20 seconds to reach the target; it detonates either after 20 seconds or once it gets within [blast range] of the target, which ever comes first. There would be 3 size categories (S/M/L) and each has a different blast radius and damage amount appropriate for its size class. There may be 'ammo' options so as to affect the damage amount and types... examples:
standard destruct compound: explosion does X explosive damage
slow-burn destruct compound: explosion does X explosive damage and Y thermic damage
fast-burn destruct compound: explosion does X explosive damage and Z kinetic damage


Other ideas, which I think/hope have not been often brought up:
- rigs that 'convert' a fitting slot from one type to another (maybe limited to one per ship)
- rig that adds a launcher/turret hardpoint (probably limited to one per ship)
- rigs to convert between turret/launcher hardpoints
- mining rigs
- scripts for drone tracking computers
- rigs to give damage bonuses to drones other than just sentry drones (maybe just less of a bonus to the mobile drones, if that's an issue)
- ability to target self with drones ("What do you mean I can't tell my repair drones to repair me?")
- drone self-destruct/suicide-crash to go out in a blaze of glory 8)
- smartbomb drones; the drone effectively carries and fires a smartbomb module
- stealth plating; gives no armour bonus, but any ships targeting you have an effectively reduced sensor strength, making it harder to target lock your ship


These ones I'm sure will be shot down immediately, but seeing guns getting up nice big DPS numbers that drones can't hope to reach, and that's before logistic computers support...
- [Drone Control Unit I] becomes [Drone Crontrol Unit II] and there is a new [Drone Control Unit I] which does give +1 max drones controlled, but only 1 can be fitted to a ship and the effect does not stack with any [Drone Control Unit II]
- Drone Control Rig (probably limited to one per ship, and/or high calibration cost, whatever!)

A long time ago, I use to trade NPC commodities across and within high and low sec. The trade system had a few problems, especially in regard to the price reset mechanic, and the profit margin was abysmally low considering the risk, especially by today's standards.

What I propose is to setup a new dynamic economy of NPC goods, and, with it, a cluster of new modules that enable ships to handle these cargoes.

These special cargoes would be comprised of "perishable commodities" which would carry with them both increased risk and reward. Their associated modules, then, would dynamically compete with cargo expanders and other modules used in trading (like shield expanders) to improve the longevity of the cargo. Each cargo would be available in only one part of space and in high demand elsewhere, encouraging traders to travel far and fast (especially if the the demand scales dynamically, with higher and higher payouts for increasingly long periods without a successful trade run).

Different cargoes would be handled differently, but several dynamics can be set up. For example, suppose there is an exotic, ceremonial Amarrian fruit that only grows on one planet and is believed to "purify" those who consume it before it changes color (normally within 2 hours of it being picked), after which the whole batch is ruined. Ships then, that can go farther and faster will see drastically higher profits per unit, though such ships typically will (and do) have significantly smaller cargo holds and higher skill requirements. Though it is possible for this fruit to stay good for quite some time on its own, use of special refrigeration or environmental control units in your low slots can preserve its value for a limited period (with multiple units giving diminishing returns, if any at all).

Meanwhile, Radioactive Byproducts (for, say, medical use; like barium) will have a half-life, thus as the material sits in your cargo bay it is constantly devaluing (and, perhaps, even getting smaller). Thus, faster pilots are rewarded by being able to sell more of their load before it decays. Materials with a short half-life also tend to put out a lot of heat and radiation though, so low slots are needed to augment the internal hulls to dissipate heat and shield the ship's systems from damage and interference. A dynamic may even be made where unshielded or poorly shielded ships slowly lose structure/armor/shields and have modules overheat as they fly, but are able to carry greater amounts (which of course worsens the radiation problem). Perhaps these ships would even require active hull repair mods in order to keep from exploding on the fly.

Another possibility is wildcard type commodities. A viral agent may require a CPU intensive mid slot to monitor and adapt to changes in the virus, which simply has a random chance of mutating and becoming suddenly worthless (with the module reducing the chance along a Poisson distribution).

Many other possibilities exist for this type of trade: Emergency medical transport, that requires a triage bay to keep the patient alive and requires that the ship not be shaken (i.e. shot at) or the patient may die (perhaps he even has hit points). Livestock requiring environmental controls or sedation. Unstable material, which might explode if the ship is exposed to certain types of radiation (possibly preventing the ship from safely entering systems with highly energetic blue stars unless their EM resistance on shield or armor is above some ridiculous threshold like 95-97%). And many more such scenarios which encourage people to play with their ship fittings or deal with threats from other players.

All the while this system will encourage people to move though dangerous areas of low and null sec . This will make pirates happy as people move through their space in an attempt to claim the reward, while simultaneously folks are encouraged to leave secure space and pass through all areas of the galaxy with NPC stations (and perhaps even outposts?).

It would even encourage people to explore wormholes which can act as extremely profitable shortcuts. Generally speaking this would encourage people to touch, examine, and interact with every aspect of the game. A win, win.

1. There's a huge gap in powergrid between 400mm plates and 800mm plates.
What about 600mm plates at 135 powergrid ?

2. Let's think about useless modules and make them better. The rigs giving optimal bonus to projectile guns per example, if it was a fixed amount it would be way better than a percentage.


Example : +2000 range for small, +5000 for medium and +10k for large.


Look at the market and check out those items that nobody buys, check out their weakness and make them better. This will add more diversity to modules without inventing anything.